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Daily Archives: October 3, 2005

7 Things I Want to Do Before I Die:1. Do a Christmas at Williamsburg Seminar – Merry Cox is almost aways a teacher and I love her designs.2. Return to Paris and have a proper visit (not just three days like last time)3. Move into my dream home (this will involve a lot of work on DH who likes our little cramped home)4. Go to CATS in Hershey – chocolate and stitching!!5. Learn to knit with a patient teacher6. Retire – my Mum died at 50 and didn’t get to enjoy the plans she had just started to make – sometimes I worry the same will happen to me.7. Visit some ancient places – Egypt, Pompeii, Japan, China

7 Things I Can Do:1. Cross-stitch2. Play the flute3. Make a delicious Raspberry and Chocolate Pavlova – thanks to Nigella Lawson4. Make my cat purr5. Love my family and friends unconditionally6. Shop – ok, stash expansion is a skill we all have. 7. Face 30 children for Children’s storytime with their Mums, Dads, Grandparents and siblings

7 Things I Can’t Do:1. Mental maths – need a calculator for most library transactions2. Smile naturally for photographs – there’s a reason I use my Peter Rabbit on the BB and on this blog…3. Work out the public transport system to get me to work in less than 2 hours (I’m a 15min drive away!)4. Do the ironing cheerfully.5. Sleep in beyond 8.00am 6. Resist the Cat or the Dog when they are begging7. Confront those who have upset me

7 Things that Attract Me to Another Person1. Sense of humour2. Intellegence3. Dark hair/eyes4. Honesty5. How they treat others6. Their smile7. A willingness to be silly with me

7 Celebrity CrushesThis took me a while – not really obsessed with these chaps, but will often go “phoarr!” when they appear on the screen. I had to resort to the non living to fill out the list.1. Keanu Reeves2. Johnny Depp3. Aragorn from LOTR4. Humphry Bogart 5. Michael Stipe (I love REM)6. Hugh Laurie – loved him in Jeeves and Wooster and A Bit of Fry and Laurie7. Cary Grant.

7 Things I Say the Most:1. Poove… (this one of Joel’s affectionate nicknames)2. Max! (This is usually telling him off unfortuately – he’s such a stubborn boy)3. Love you. (to Joel, Family, dog, cat etc)4. Hello, Meow-meow (greeting the cat)5. Hurrah/Huzzah. 6. I’m so proud of us! (mostly to my staff – we are making huge changes at work, shifting the stock around mainly)7. Well done, Everybody! (Ditto)

Well, I’ve not tagged anyone else – I think I’ve seen this on just about everyone’s blog! If you’ve not done this one yet, consider yourself tagged! Love you.